Veet

[janedavitt]

I've been following the Veet ads kerfuffle with a curled lip. Wish I used it so I could boycott it but I don't. Their nonpology is as pathetic as their nasty commercials.

I did like this response on one article:

I'm an averagely sexist male and even I found this offensive.

'The fact that there might be the faint ghost of hair on your legs does not take away for a second from the fact I had sex with a person who is a female of my species. The only reason I'm not doing victory dances, creating impromptu soppy poetry, and just sitting on my knees sobbing while thanking you is that I have to pretend to some semblance of coolness in the vain hope that you might repeat the fixture.'

That is what goes through chap's brains.

Heh. Okay.

Comments

[green_grrl]

What a hilarious response!

Not a fan of the implicit homophobia, either.

But I feel sorry for the women working at Veet who actually feel this way. I stopped shaving underarms and legs some 25 years ago. One of the big influences was a friend at the time who had severe medical/pain problems. While she was bedridden after surgery she had huge emotional turmoil, too, that her leg hair had grown. She felt like a "beast." If society can cause a person to have that much anguish over a natural bodily occurrence ... My stance is that if men can choose to shave their face or not, then women's body hair should be in appearance about as often as beards are, not a giant taboo.

[janedavitt]

Homophobia, transphobia...they tick a lot of boxes on the fail chart.

What gets me, is how recent this obsession is. I know removal of hair was done in olden times, for rich women anyway, but generally, it was seen as perfectly natural to have it. Which, hello, it is. When women naturally grow body hair, how can it be unfeminine to have it? It's a sign you're a mature female, like starting your period. Pre-pubescent girls have no body hair; why mimic that as an adult?

It's crazy. So sorry your friend went thought that.

[bluewolf458]

It never, ever, occurred to me to get rid of body hair (that includes plucking eyebrows). Why should I want to? Though I'm losing a lot of it now naturally - roughly thirty years after the menopause I no longer have underarm hair and my pubic hair is a lot sparser than it was, and while I'm not going bald I no longer have the thickness of hair on my head that I once did.

I just wish my bust would shrink!

[janedavitt]

When you consider it as an idea, it seems ludicrous.